I  lloLSK    ]>ILL,   No.     I  i.>.  1 

HOUSK  OF  REPR-GSKNTATIVES,  May  id,  IS(J4.— Read  first 
and  second  times,  made  the  special  order  for  Monday,  at  12  o'clock, 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Lvon,  tVom  the  Conuuittec  ot"  Ways  and  Means.] 


^'s.    BILL. 

To  be  entitled   An  Act  making   appropriations  for  the  support  of  the 
Government  of  the  Confederate   States  of  America  from  July  I  to 

9 

December  31,  1864,  and  to  supply  a  deficiency. 
1  Sf.ction  1 .   The  Congress  of  the  Confhkrate  States  of  America  do 

3     enact,  That  the  following  sunks  be,  and  the  same  arc  hereby,  ap- 

3  propriated,  oiit  of   any   money  in   the   Treasury  not   otherwise 

4  appropriated,  for  the  support  of  the  Governmient,  from  July  first 

5  to  December  thirty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four : 

1  Lkgislative. — For  compensation  and  mileage  of  members  and 

2  delegates  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  two  jiundred  thou- 

3  sand  dollars,  ($200,000.) 

4  For  compensation  of  officers  and  others  employed  in  the  House 

5  of  Representatives,   five  thousand  six  hundred  and  twenty-five 

6  dollars,  ($5,625.) 

7  For  contingent  expenses  of  the  House  of  Representatives, 

8  forty  thousand  dollars,  ($40,000.) 


1)  For  coinpensiitioii  and    mileage    of  luembcrs  ul"  tlie    Senate, 

10  forty-nine  thousand  dollars,  ($  19,U<iii.) 

11  For  compensation  of -officers   and   cleiks   gi   tlie    Senate,    ten 

12  thousand  dollars,  ($ 1 1),( mo.) 

13  For   incidental  and  contingent  expenses  ot  the   Senate,    ten 

14  thousand  dollars,  ($ Id, (KMl.) 

1  Executive. — For  compensation  of  the  President  of  the  Con- 

2  federate  States,  twelve  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($12,300.) 

3  For  compensation  of  the   Vice  President   of  the  Confederate 

4  States,  three  thousand  dollars,  ($3,000.) 

5  For  compensation  of  the   private  secretary  antl   messenger  of 

6  the  President  of  the.  Confederate  States,    one    thousand    three 

7  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  ($i,35H.) 

8  For  compensation  of  the  private  secretary  of  the  Vice  Presi- 

9  dent  of  the  Confederate  States,  five  hundred  dollars,  ($500.) 

10  For  the  contingent  and  telegraphic  expenses  of  the  Executive 

11  Department,  twenty  thousand  dollars,  ($20,00i).) 

1  Treasurv  Department. — For  compensation  of  the  Secretary 

2  of  the  Treasury,   Assistan     Secretary,  Comptroller,    Auditors, 
S  Treasurer  and  Register,  and  clerks  and  messengers,  four  hundred 

4  and  eighty-four  thousand  five  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars  and 

5  fifty  cents,  ($484,562  50.) 

6  For  the  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Treasury 

7  Department,  fifty  thousand  dollaw,  (50,000.) 


3  "  -tir-f-'^-rtr-p' 

S  '     For  payment  of  interest  on  the  public  debt,   twenty  million         ^"'■ 
9     dollars,  ($20,000,000.) 

10  For  engraving  and  printing  treasury  notes,  bonds  and  certifi- 

11  cates  for  stocks,,  and  for  paper  for  the  Carrie,  two  hundred  thou- 

12  Pand  dollars,  ($200,000.)   , 

13  For  payment  of  the  principal,  under  loan  of  August  19,  1861, 

14  due  January   1,    1865,   one  million  three  hundred  and  ninety- 

15  three  thousand  nine  hundred  dollars,  ($1,393,900.) 

16  For  rent  of  Executive  buildings  and  President's  house,  twenty 

17  thousand  dollars,  ($20,000.) 

18-        For  onnipensation  of  the  agent  of  the   Treasury  Department 

19  west  of  the   Mississippi    river,  and  auditor,   comptroller,  clerks 

2(^  and   messengers  in  their   hnreaup.  twenty-five  f'l'^usand  dollars, 

21  ($25,000.) 
,22  For  ndvertisinir  J'Tid  other  expermos  incident  to  funding  treas- 

23  ury  notes,  three  hundred  th'ousand  dollars,  ($30'). 000.) 

24  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  treasury  service 

25  west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  twenty  thousand  dollars,  ($20,000.) 

26  For  travelling  and  other  expenses  incident  to  the  detection  of 

27  persons  engaged  in  prepai-ing  and  j  assing  forged  treasury  notes, 

28  five  thousand  dollars,  ($5,(»00.) 

29  For  salary,  clerk  hire,  and  other  expenses  of  agent  of  Er-  * 

30  langer  loan,  in  Paris,  ten  thousand  dollars,  ($10,000.) 

1  War    Department.  —  For   compensation    of  the   SeCFCtftrv  of 

I 


4 

2  War,  assiBtant  Secretary,  chief  of  bureau,  clerks,   messengers, 

3  and  others  employe'l  in  the  War  Departmont.  two   hundre<l   and 

4  five  thousand  dollars,  ($205,«M)0.) 

5  For  incidental  and    contingent   expenses  of  the   War   Depart- 

6  nient,  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  ($13r>,lii)().) 

7  For  salary  of  commissioner,  chief  clerk,  and  incidental 
5  expenses  of  Indian  bureau,  nine  thousand  two  hundred  and  fifty 
9     dollars,  (§;9,25(i.) 

10  For  contingent  expenses  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  (Jen- 

11  eraPs  Department,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  (;S;2o,0()U.) 

12  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  army,  one  hun- 

13  dred  thousand  dollars,  (S100,0()(».) 

1  Quartermaster's     Department.; — For    pay    of     the    army, 

2  seventy-four  million  two  hundred   and  forty-nine   thousand  nine 

3  hundred  and  fifty-one  dollars,  ($74,249,951.) 

4  For  disbursements  for  the  public  service  of  the  Quartermas- 

5  ter's   Department,  one   hundred   and   twenty-five  million   seven 

6  hundred    and    fifty    thousand    and    fovty-nine    dollars,    ($125,- 

7  75U,U49.) 

1  Commissary  Department. — For  the  purchase  of  subsistence 

2  stores  and  commissary  property,  in  addition  to  the  unexpended 

3  balance  £>f  the  last  appropriation,  one  hundred  million  dollars, 

4  ($100,000,000.) 

I 


,  1  Orunance  Department — For  the   ordnance  service  in  all  its 

2  branches,  twenty-five  million  dollars,  ($25,(100,000.) 

3  For  the  nijre  and  mining  service,  four   million   three  hundred 

4  thousatad  dollars,  ($::,300,(iOO.) 

1  Engineer  Department. — For  the  enf^ineer  service,  ten  million 

2  dollars,  ($U),!;00,Oi.O.) 

1  Medical  Department. — For  pay  of  physicians   employed  by 

2  contract,  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($250,000.) 

3  For  gay  of  nurses  and  cooks,  not  enlisted  as  volunteers,  three 

4  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($360,000.) 

5  '      For  pay  of  hospital    laundresses,  one  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 

6  sand  dollars,  ($150,000.) 

7  For  the  purchase    of    medical    and  hospital   supplies,   four- 

8  teen    million    eight    hundred    and    twenty    thousand    dollars, 

« 

9  ($14,820,000.) 

10  For  the  establishment  and  support   of  military   hospitals,   one 

1 1  hundred  thousand  dollars,  ($lOO,0(tO.) 

12  For  pay  of  hospital  stewards,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars, 

13  ($100,000.) 

14  For  pay   of  matrons,  assistant  matrons  and    war<l   matrons, 

15  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  ($35t),000.) 

16  For    pay  of   ward    masters,    two    hundred    thousand   dollars, 

17  ($200,000.) 

1  Navv  Department. — For    compensation   of  the   Secretary  of 


6 

2  the    Navy,     clerks    Hnd    niOF8cn<:or.    in    h'\^    office,   twenty-two 

?,  tlK>u.''and  nine  hundrcti  an«l   thirty-one  dollars  and   thirty-seven 

.4  cents,  ($22,931   37.) 

5  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Navy    Depart- 

6  ment,  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  ;$15,t^i)i>.) 

7  For  pay  of  the  navy,  one  million  six  hundred  and  forty-seven 
S  thousraid,  three  hundred  and  ei.^hty-four  dollars  and  seventy-five 
0  cents,  ($1,647,384  75.) 

1(1  For  provisions  and  clothing  in  the  Paymaster's  Dtpartment,  two 

1 1  million  fifty- one  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($2,051,500.) 

12  For  the  construction    of  iron-clad    vessels  in    the  Confederate 

13  States,  two  million  dollars,  ($2,000,000.) 

14  For  ordnance   and   ordnrnce   stores,  one  million  four  hundred 

15  thousand  dollars,  ($1,4(U),000.) 

» 

16  For    repair*"     of     vesseh',   three    hundred    thousand    dollars, 
»17  (30-1,000.) 

18  For  equipment   and  stores   of  vessels,  five   hundred  thousand 

19  dollars,  (500,000.) 

20  For  the  construction  of  submarine  hatteries.  two  hundred  and 

21  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($250,000.) 

22'  For  contin_c;ent  enumerated,  eiirlit  hundred  thousand  dollars, 

23  ($800,01)0.) 

24  For  medical  supplies  and  surj^eons'  necessaries,  three  hundred* 

25  and  sixty  thousand  dollars,  ($360,(»00.) 


2i)  For  riupport  of  the    uiariue    corjj,^,  seven  huudrcti  and   eleven 

27  thousand  four  hundred  and  eighteen  dolhirs,  ($71  1,4^S.) 
I  State  Dkpautmf.nt  — For   conipon.sation   of  the   Secrctarj  of 

2  State,     clerks,     messenger    and    laborer,    seven     thousand   and 

3  fourteen  dollars,  ($7,(114.) 

4  .    For  foreign  intercourse,  thirty. seven   thousand  nine  hundred 

5  dollars,  ($37,900.) 

1  Department   of   Justick. — F'or   compensation    of    Attorney 

2  General,  Assistant  Attorney   General,  clerks   and  messengers, 
f3  ten    thousf^nd    and    twenty -five  dollars    and    twenty-six    cents, 

4  (10,025  26.) 

5  For  incidental    and   contingent   expenses,  two  thousand    five 
G  hundred  dollars,  ($2,500.)  '  • 

7  For  compensation   of  the   Superintendent  of  Public  Printing, 

8  clerks    and    messenger,  five  thousand  three  hundred  and  sixteen 

9  dollars  and  thirty-two  cents,  ($5,316  32.) 

10  For  compensation  of  Governor  and  Commissioner  of  Indian 

1 1  Affairs,  of  Secretary,  and  of  Judges,  Attorney  and  Marshal  of 

12  Arizona  Territory,  four  thousand   six  hundred  and  fifty  dollars, 
J3  ($4,650.) 

1 4  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  Arizona  Territory,  to 

15  be  expended  by  the  Governor,  five  hundred  dollars,  ($500.) 

Tl  6  For  printing,  binding  and  ruling  for  the   several   Executive  De- ' 

17  partments,  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($150,000.) 


IK  For  printing,  biii<lin;r  ao'i  ruhnj;  for  both  Houses  of  Congress, 

in  inclu<ling  th*»  printin;;  of  th«»  law  .  in    the   «uth«»ri7,(^il    form,  and 

2ii  the  journals  of  C"on<;rc>s,  forty  th«iusui'l  lollnrs,' ($4'i. '*''*'  )      ' 

21  For  prinlinjr  nn'l  hui'linjr  tlu'  <li;^C9t  of  tlio  laws,  ton  tli  )usiin'l 

22  dollars,    (^H»,<»n<i.) 

23  For  the  purchase  of  paper  for  the  digosi  of  the   lii>Ys,   twenty 

24  thousand  dollars,  (:$2(),(l(Ml.) 

2J  For  the  publication  and  printing  of  the  several  acts  and  reso- 

26  lutions  of  Congress,  five  thousand  dollars,  (:$5, <•((().) 

27  For  the  purchase  of  paper  for  the  several  Exeoutive   Depart^ 

28  meats  and  Congress,  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  ($75, <J(Ml.) 

29  For   compensation  of  judges,  attorneys   and    marshals,    and 
50  incidental   and  contingent  expenses  of  courts,  eighty  thousand 

31  dollars,  ($8(),0<l(l.) 

32  For  compensation   of   throe  commis.sioi>ers,  appointed   under 

33  the  sequestration   act,   and  for  clerk   hive  and  contingent  ex- 
3-1  penscs,  ($o,(l(Mi.) 

3a         Inuian  Affairs. — For  amount  ro<iuirod  to  comply  with  treaty 

30  stipulations,  entered   into   between  tiio  Confederate   States    and 

37  certain  Indian  tribes,  one  hundred  and  forty-two  thousand   two 

38  hundred  dollars,  ($142,200.) 

1  rosT-OFFicE  Department. — For  compensation  of   the  FostHJll 

2  master  General,  chiefs  of  bureau,  clerks  and  messenger,  watch-^' 


*S  men  and  laborers,  forty-three  thousand  three  hundred  and  thirty- 

4  nine  dollars,  ($43,339.) 

5  For    continojent   fund    of    the    Poat-OflRce    Department,    five 

6  thousand  dollars,  ($5,000.)         ;         , 

T  For  compensation  of  the  agent   and   clerks  of  the   Post-Office 

8  Department  in   the  States   west  of  the   Mississippi  river,   nine 

9  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($9,500.) 

JO  For  house  rent  at  Marshall,   Texas,   three   thousand  dollars, 

11  ($3,000.) 

12  For  contingent  and  miscellaneous  expenses  in  the  trans-Mis- 

13  sissippi  department,  five  thousand  dollars,  ($5,000.)    *  fTff':«f 

1 4  For  compensation  of  agents,  cost  of  material,  and  constructing, 

15  repairing  and  operating  telegraph  lines,  seventy-eight  thousand 

16  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  ($78,250.) 

17  For    the  nitre    and    mining    service  in    the    trans-Mississippi 

18  department  from  the  1st  of  July  to  the  30th  of  June,   1865,  two 

19  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  ($2,500,000.) 

1  Postal  Sfrvicf.. — For   the  postal   service  of  the   Confederate 

2  States,  to  he  paid  hy  applying  six  hundred  thousand  five  hundred 

3  and  fifty    dollars    and    seventy-one    cents.    ($600,550  71,)    the 

4  balance  remaining  unexpended  of  the  revenues  of  the  Post-Ofl5ce 

5  Department  for  the  year  ending  .Tune  30th,  1863,  and  in  addition 

6  of  two  million  seven  hundred  and   thirty-seven   thousand  three 

7  hundred  and  two  dollarB  and  thirty  cents,  ($2,737,302  30,)  the 


10 

8  revenues   arising;  from   postages,  sales  of  postage  stamps,  and 

9  emoluments  from'box  rents  from  July  1st,  1864,   to  June  30th, 

10  1865,  viz:- 

11  For  transportation  of  the-mails,  two  millions  one  hundred  and 

12  fifty-seven    thousand   eight   hundred   and    forty-six   dollars  and 

13  forty-three  cents,  ($2,157,846  43  ) 

14  For  compensation  to  posta asters   and  clerks   in   post-offices, 

15  nine  hupdredand  seventy-nine  thousand  twohuntlredand  twenty- 

16  six  dollars  and   twenty-three  cents,  ($979,226  23.) 

17  For    ship,    steamboat    and   way    letters,    seven    hundred   and 

18  seventy-one  dollars  and  forty-one  cents,  ($771   41.) 

19  For    advertising,  twelve   thousand    nine    hundred  .and  fifteen 

20  dollars  and  sixty-two  cents,  ($12,916  62  ) 

-j|  r  V 

21  For  mail  bags,  se'ven  thousand  three  hundred  and  nine  dollars 

22  and  eighty-five  <!ents,  ($7,309  f^o.) 

23  For  office  furniture,   one  thousand  four   hundred  and  sixty 

24  dollars,  ($1,460.) 

9 

25  For  blanks,  printihg,  seventy-four  thousand  and   forty-seven 

26  dollars  and  seventy-six  cents,  ($74,047  76.) 

27  For  wrapping  paper,  twenty-nine  thousand  three  hundred  and 

28  thirty-eight  dollars  and  eighteen  cents,  ($29,338  18  ) 

29  For  mail  locks,  keys  and  stamps,  seven  hundred  and  fifty-six 

30  dollars  aad  seventy-five  cents,  ($756  75.) 


11 

31  For  mail  depredation'^  and  special  agents,  twenty-six  thousand 

32  and  sixty-eight  dollars  and  thirty-one  cents,  ($26,U68  31.) 

33  For  miscellaneous  payments,    twenty  thousand  five  hundred 

34  and  thirty-nine  dollars  and  sixty-nine  cents. i(;f|;2<>. 539   6:^.) 

35  For  ]1ostage  stamps,  twenty-peven  thousand  five   hundred. and 

36  seventy-two  dollnrs  and  seventy-eight  cents,  (:$27,572  78.) 

37  For  snlaries  of  judges  and  attorneys,  and  for  incidental  and 

« 

38  contingent  expenses  of  courts,  to  supply  deficiencies  for  the  year 

39  ending  Juno  3(ith.  1864.  sixty  thousand  dollars,  ($60,000  )* 

40  For  compensation  of  Secretary  of  the  Navy,cjerks  and  messenger 

41  in  his  office,  from  the  loth  May  to  the  30th  of  June,  1864,  one 

42  thousand  t*ix    hundred    and    eighty-nine   dollars    and    sixty-six 

43  cents,  ($1,689  66.)  * 

44  For  pay  of  oKicers  of  the  navy  under  certain   circumstances, 

45  according  to  the  act  approved  March  1 6th,  1861,  from  the  16th 
4G  of  February  to  the  3()th  of  June,  1864,  two  hundred   thousand 

47  dollars,  (S2<)(),000.) 

48  For    interest   due    to    the    Choctaw   Nation  of  Indians    upon 

49  Virginia  State  bonds,  which  interest  has  been  turned  over  to  the 
5(^  Confederacy  by  that  State,  forty  thousand  five  hundred  dollars, 
51  ($40,500.) 

.52  For  compensation  of  the  agent  and  clerks  in  the  Post-OflSce 

53  Department  of  the  trans-Mississippi  department  from  the  Ist  of 


If 

.^4  April  to  the  SUtk  of  June,  ISf)!».  six  thousand  four  hundred  and 

.'t'j  ninety-four  dolltirs  an  I  forty  cents.  f$G.494   4ti  ) 

56  F'or  transportation  of  clprks.  hooks.  \c..  to  Marshall,   Texas, 

.)7  three  thousand  dollars,  (#3, "'•<•. ^ 

.■>h  .    For  House  rent  of  Posf.OffieeJ)epartment,  at  Marshall,  Texaa, 

59  from  the  1st  of  April  to  the  3' th   o(  .lune.    18ti4.  two   thousand 

60  dollars,  (S2,<in(».) 

» 

61  For  furniture,  fuel,  licrhts  and  miscellaneous  expenses  of  the 
6i  tost-Office  Department,  west  of  the   Mississippi  river,  from    the 

63  1st  of  April  to. the   30th  of  June,    1864,   ten   thousand  dojlara, 

64  (SlO.Odd.) 

65  For  amoujit  of  acccount  due  Geo.  P.  Evans  <fc  Co.,  for  printing, 
GG  under  a  contract  made  by  the  Joint  Committee  of  the  Senate  and 
67  House  of  Representatives,  nppointed  to  investigate  the  ddminis- 
OS  tration  of  the  Navy   Department,  under  its   present   head,  three 

69  thouaanii  two  hundred  and   eighty-four  dollars  and  four  cents, 

70  ($3,284  04.)  * 


